Prudence Peiffer

Jun 28, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Prudence Peiffer

The National Book Awards will celebrate its 75th anniversary at this year’s ceremony, on Nov. 20.

Jun 17, 2024 | moma.org | Alex Katz |Prudence Peiffer

The artist talks about Claude Monet, the muscle memory of painting, and why he’s packing a tube of orange paint for his summer in Maine. On a recent warm morning, my colleague Naeem Douglas and I visited Alex Katz in his downtown New York City studio, just days before he decamped to Maine for the summer. Katz was up on a rolling ladder painting when we first arrived, and he finished applying a dark brown coat of paint before climbing down to say hello.

Mar 31, 2024 | streetbeat.substack.com | Prudence Peiffer |John Surico

And welcome to this newsletter. It's where I (John Surico) talk each month about cities & all their discontents: streets, environment, energy, cultures, people, food, form, etc. This month, we cover:- A historic year for pedestrian safety;- A holy housing solution;- An ode to Akira Toriyama;& much, much more. I, like so many others, learned Roman numerals from the Rocky movies. So if my math’s correct, this is the fiftieth (big 5-0)edition of Streetbeat. What a joy, folks.

Mar 16, 2024 | nytimes.com | Prudence Peiffer

In "With Darkness Came Stars," the photorealist Audrey Flack offers a vivid, gossipy chronicle of her career among some of New York City's most famous artists.

Aug 6, 2023 | lithub.com | Prudence Peiffer

This sentence was a hostile negotiation. It’s nine a.m. on a rainy Saturday morning; I’ve been up since six, which is three prime writing hours already lost. But I’ve struck a deal and I can leave my family—my five-year-old already drawing a crying princess without a mother, my potty-training two-year-old dragging against my leg, my eight-month-old down for his precious, long morning nap after an angry bout of tummy time and a greedy nursing session—and head to the little room where I write.